BBCNEWS HARDtalk June 4, 2024 23:46:00
He was a vicious, nasty man. i mean, i know he's dead, but he was vicious. and he picked on hockney, kitaj and myself to attack. so if he was reviewing somebody else�*s show, at the end, he would say something like — but it's not as bad as kitaj. something like that. and i... you thought that wasn't fair? he just was a nasty man. well, what about the charge that...? i did once do an interview with him, he was absolutely charming, and we got on very well. and there was a level where you could almost say we were friends. but within the profession of being an art critic, he was a vicious art ...
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